Should be calling for a total abolition of the program
“without skilled workforce”? The implication is that America is unable to produce that workforce. Rather than importing those workers, we should be importing their teachers and/or education systems.
If there are no American that can do the job, then that should be an embarrassment to everyone involved in education. We indeed have a large section of population that consists of uneducable layabouts, and there is little that can be done with them. I don’t believe the work-around is to import third world foreign workers.
Wiki calls him far right so he must be a good one.
” Many are worried about how this will affect their ability to hire skilled tech workers from abroad”
Tons of kids getting Comp Sci degrees right now who are not getting internships or job offers.
No need at all for supposedly “skilled” tech workers from the Indian subcontinent. They can just stay there and Make India Not So Great Again!
Since when is common sense a far right ideology?
“‘Calling for total H-1B visa shutdown, until…’: Republican leader sparks debate over America’s future without skilled workforce
America’s skilled work force saved the world in WW2 and is doing a pretty good job right now. Importing a foreign work force isn’t the answer. Immigrants who want to come here and show allegiance to the USA are welcome to come here and work.
If we can’t produce internal (i.e. from our own citizenry) talent qualified to maintain (and grow) our place in the world, then we have much bigger problems than H1Bs. Fixing that should be our number one priority.
If Americans can’t be guaranteed (reasonably) a shot at success without being displace by non-US citizens, many won’t take the chance of spending a ton of money and time preparing for a career that carries a high chance of being given to a non-citizen. Ultimately that hurts the US, tremendously, and possibly irrevocably.
I am a ‘live free or die’ person, and I am 100% for rewarding people for their talents and efforts. That said, there are too many people with financial power in America NOT the result of hard work, innovation, and sacrifice, but by being a weaslely parasite - waiting for the chance to steal the gazelle that someone else worked hard to catch.
Ultimately, or society is somewhat like a pyramid game, but traditionally one that you could do well in if you worked hard and stuck it out. More recently it is more likely a conman’s pyramid scheme. Shipping jobs to non-citizens will eventually lead to the destruction of the American experiment
Eliminating H1Bs is a good thing for us and the other countries. Talent from other nations should stay in their respective nations. Draining the brains from the third world keeps the the countries the third world. We are full and have plenty of skilled “workers.” (I hate using marxist language but here we are.) If it is truly impossible for a company to find an American to do a skilled service there is a new invention from Al Gore called the inter webs that allows anyone in the world to remotely work. It is pretty cool and might be a big thing. H1Bs are just to save corporations money. I thought democrats hated corporations anyway.
Plenty of highly skilled unemployed native borns in the US. Rack that fee up to one million, and make it immediate and for existing H1-B holders. That would let it die by its own hand with less political fallout for the Republicans.
First it was “who will pick our tomatoes?”. Now it’s “who will do our high paying tech jobs?”. And both imports are low IQ, uneducated filth.
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H1B was supposed to be for exceptional talent, workers with skills that did not exist in USA, etc.
of course,
the federal income tax was supposed to be for only the “robber barons” to pay (and “the average working man will never pay a nickel in the new income tax”)
and of course,
the federal income tax was supposed to be very simple, just a few lines, and file-able on the backside of a single post-card
and of course,
federal income tax withholding was supposed to be only a temporary measure to advance revenue collections in preparation for World War 2.
“...without skilled workforce...”
Easy peesy...grow your own!
Trump put up roadblocks before, and companies found a way around them.
Companies will find a way around the $100,000 fee, too.
Some companies make the Indian workers and their families sign contracts agreeing to pay $30K in damages, for example, or agreeing that their property will be confiscated, if they leave an employer. (Back in 2017, this man went into further detail: https://youtu.be/GLwXT4mQn5s?t=866)
Is there anything stopping a company from making the H1B worker pay for the $100,000 somehow? What’s stopping a company from deducting the amount from the H1B worker’s paychecks?
Some people are so desperate to come to the U.S. that they might agree to work for pennies the first year.